If you’re the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it’s like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the new, in this amazing, sometimes frighteningly free American culture.
Some of you know what it’s...

With all that college beef on parade this week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry.
But there's something football fans should know:
Football is dead in America.

Jorge Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants born in Buenos Aires, doesn't fit the image of a high and mighty churchman in charge of an empire of more than 1 billion people.
He's a humble man and, at 76, not young.

Republican Sen. John McCain is pushing 80 now, but he still has those jaws and the Teddy Roosevelt teeth that look as if they could chomp through a baseball bat.
Yet no matter how vital his bite, the Arizona Republican is getting up in years.

There's no way America can fully understand the odd expenditures of guilty former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. - like those $7,058 stuffed elk heads - without reading a special book.
It's called "It's About the Money!" by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a hunter.
She tracked men and she killed them. And no woman was ever better at it.
She'd hide under bushes in the snow. Or she'd find a burned-out building and watch in the gray rubble in the cold, waiting for enemy soldiers.

You know the beginning and you know the end, but it's the way director Kathryn Bigelow tells the middle in her riveting movie "Zero Dark Thirty" that amazed me.
I hope you see it. I'm going to see it again.